My background music for FMs etc. (originally for the Hammerite Imperium)

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My background music for FMs etc. (originally for the Hammerite Imperium)

I decided to release all the music I had done for the Hammerite Imperium to the community. I made over 60 minutes of music for it - mostly ambient, neoclassical, and such mellow stuff that works as unobtrusive background music, but there is also one electro/industrial metal tune. Everyone is free to use these in their FMs, and other non-profit ventures.

I've been meaning to release all of these for quite some time now, but I just kept procrastinating. I had to redo one song (Disturbed) from scratch because of file corruption and I wanted to remix everything after I had learned more about mixing, mastering, etc. Well, long story short, I finally took the time to lay this eternity project to rest, and you can download all the finished stuff from the first link below.

Some of these are being used in Seven Shades of Mercury, which is now in its second round of beta testing. I don't suppose it much matters that you released them ahead of the mission. Hopefully it will be released within a few weeks.

Thank ye guys. I hope they end up being usefull to mission makers, and of course enjoyable just to listen to

Originally Posted by Yandros

Some of these are being used in Seven Shades of Mercury, which is now in its second round of beta testing. I don't suppose it much matters that you released them ahead of the mission. Hopefully it will be released within a few weeks.

Whatwhatwhat? It's really being released? I had no idea. I must have completely fallen out of the loop (which isn't all that surprising considering how many projects I tend to work on all the time)

Are you the one working on the 7SoM mission? If so, I'd recommend you download these new versions of my songs for the mission then, because they are superior in quality. I could also provide you with '16 bit 44 kHz' or '32f bit 44 khz' wave files, but I don't have any place where to host such large amount of data at the moment (yousendit etc. works but would only be a temporary solution)

Had I known people were still working on HI I might have delayed the release of these songs until the 7SoM mission was released. I would have still released them for all the community to use at some point anyway. I hope me releasing these can serve as a promotional tool for the mission.

Absolutely. Except, I had to disable new accounts this morning because I was getting numerous spam accounts created daily. But if you want to create an account, just let me know and I'll reenable new user creation until you're in, then switch it off again.

As for using the higher quality files, I'm not sure it will matter... they're mushed down to IMA ADPCM format for the ZIP anyway. However, we can consider using them and converting to OGG for packaging if the difference in sound quality is noticeable. I'll leave that up to John Denison, who's currently leading the testing.

I especially like Night's work, reminds me a lot of Thief's original intros. Also, Repent and Horny (why such a title ) suit perfectly the kind of atmosphere I'm working on for my next fm. Just what I needed to continue dromeding in good conditions.

Thank ye, good sir. It's good to hear they work well on a 5.1 surround system. I mixed them into goode olde 2.0 stereo (because one has to accommodate the lowest common denominator). I do have a couple of stereo imaging/surround/whatever tricks that I include in all my songs, so I guess they also brought life to the tracks in systems beyond just stereo.

Thanks for adding me. I'll come join asap.

Originally Posted by Yandros

Absolutely. Except, I had to disable new accounts this morning because I was getting numerous spam accounts created daily. But if you want to create an account, just let me know and I'll reenable new user creation until you're in, then switch it off again.

As for using the higher quality files, I'm not sure it will matter... they're mushed down to IMA ADPCM format for the ZIP anyway. However, we can consider using them and converting to OGG for packaging if the difference in sound quality is noticeable. I'll leave that up to John Denison, who's currently leading the testing.

And indeed do let me know if you need the higher quality samples, and I'll find some way to send them to you, or to whomever needs them.

Originally Posted by DrK

FANTASTIC musics ! What a great work

I especially like Night's work, reminds me a lot of Thief's original intros. Also, Repent and Horny (why such a title ) suit perfectly the kind of atmosphere I'm working on for my next fm. Just what I needed to continue dromeding in good conditions.

Thank ye. This is exactly what I like to hear. I'm happy people will use my humble stuff in Thief fan missions, and I look forward to playing yours when it's released.

Horny has such a name because it has horns in it. Why? What did you think it was? (I am a perverted bugger, aren't I?)

Night's Work is indeed my take on the original Thief intro song. I always wanted to try my hands on such a song, and that is the result. At times I think I might have made it too metal, but I think it still fits the theme.

Night's Work is indeed my take on the original Thief intro song. I always wanted to try my hands on such a song, and that is the result. At times I think I might have made it too metal, but I think it still fits the theme.

I love it! I suppose I should release my remake of A Thief's Path, which I made in 2002/3 for DP2, and then only used about 20 seconds of it when I finally released the mission last year (used during the final cutscene).

...I suppose I should release my remake of A Thief's Path, which I made in 2002/3 for DP2, and then only used about 20 seconds of it when I finally released the mission last year (used during the final cutscene).

Thank you very much guys. I honestly didn't expect such a positive response. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside hearing people like the stuff.

Originally Posted by Bikerdude

Atolonen, I would love to listen to the hi quality versions...

Sure. I can upload the '16 bit 44 kHz' wav files as a zip archive to megaupload. It will be approx. 600 megs in size. I can't upload the higher quality '32f bit 44 khz' archive, because it's 1,2 gigs, and megaupload doesn't allow free users to send over a gig of stuff. I'll let you know in this topic when I've uploaded the stuff.

If anyone has a suggestion of a webspace/site/whatever where I could get these files permanently hosted, I'd be grateful.

Thank you very much guys. I honestly didn't expect such a positive response. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside hearing people like the stuff.

Sure. I can upload the '16 bit 44 kHz' wav files as a zip archive to megaupload. It will be approx. 600 megs in size. I can't upload the higher quality '32f bit 44 khz' archive, because it's 1,2 gigs, and megaupload doesn't allow free users to send over a gig of stuff. I'll let you know in this topic when I've uploaded the stuff.

If anyone has a suggestion of a webspace/site/whatever where I could get these files permanently hosted, I'd be grateful.

If you want, we could put them on the darklurkers (darklurker.org and darklurker.com) That way you'd have two permanent copies.

I'm not absolutely sure what file format especially the fan mission makers prefer. I can convert them into the most popular ones, people just need to tell me what those are. Of course, if you host the wave files people can convert them to whatever format they wish without any unnecessary loss in quality.

Even if you don't have space for all of the options, I'd be grateful if you can host at least some. I don't want to pressure you or anything. I also have a zip archive of '32f bit 44 khz' wave files that eats up 1,2 Gigs of space, but I guess hosting such a large amount is overkill. People would still need to downgrade those when converting them to mp3s etc.

Probably wav are most popular, as that is the format that thief uses by default for sounds/ambients. They have to be in IMA ADPCM (adpcm right, peeps?) wav files. Though I've noticed in newer FMs there are mp3s or oggs. Not sure how FM authors do that though.

You're welcome. Great tracks by the way. These definately would be good for a thiefy project.